SBIR/STTR Research Award
Magnetic MEMS Switches for RF Missile Seeker Applications
Award amount
$0Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2001Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- MICROLAB
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The work proposed here consists of design, fabrication, packaging, and characterization of latching magnetic RF MEMS switches operational from dc through 40GHz. The active switching component of the device is a movable ferromagnetic cantilever thatelectrically shunts a gap in an on-chip transmission line (CPW and/or microstrip) to turn the switch ON and opens the gap to turn the switch OFF. Packaged prototype RF switches suitable for missile seeker applications will be delivered to the customer atthe conclusion of Phase II.
Technology keywords
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